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Dana E. Neuts

Dana Neuts is Subscription Insider's Editorial Director, covering our daily subscription news as well as member features, case studies, premium content, and reports. Dana is also a writer, editor, marketer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, The Seattle Times, Seattle Business, 425 Business, 425 Magazine, South Sound Magazine, Northwest Travel and more. Her specialties include business writing, community news, senior issues, travel and, of course, subscriptions!

Dana E. Neuts

This Week’s Subscription Headlines: Cyber Attacks, Ad Blockers & Ads

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What started out as a slow news week for subscription companies has blossomed into a very busy news cycle. This week we’ve got a wide variety of headlines for you including how to eliminate subscription friction, insight into how ads are killing your website and your SEO, how no one is immune from cyber attacks, and how one ad blocking company is angering its users by selling ads. What?!!

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California Man Sues Sirius XM Over Misleading Lifetime Subscription

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Paul Wright of California filed a class action lawsuit on Monday alleging that Sirius XM Radio misled consumers over lifetime subscriptions. In the suit. Wright alleges Sirius XM is applying the ‘lifetime’ condition to the lifetime of a receiver or device, such as an automobile, not the lifetime of the subscriber. How will this affect tens of thousands of lifetime subscribers?

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Adblock Plus Debuts Acceptable Ads Platform to Sell Ads

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Yesterday Adblock Plus announced it is launching an Acceptable Ads Platform in beta. The new product will help move the Acceptable Ads Initiative forward while also serving as a compromise between users and advertisers. AAP allows publishers of all sizes to add pre-whitelisted, pre-approved ads to their websites. All ads meet Acceptable Ads criteria for content, size and placement, but how will Adblock Plus’s 100 million-plus users react? So far, it isn’t positive.

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The Globe and Mail Offers Buyouts to Staff to Offset Revenue Declines

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Canada’s #1 newspaper, The Globe and Mail, is the latest media outlet to fall prey to necessary staff cuts. In an all-staff meeting last week, employees were notified of voluntary severance packages that would be offered in the coming months. To avoid staff layoffs, 40 employees need to accept the buyouts to help the media outlet reduce costs. With a current staff of about 650, the staffing cuts amount to about 6 percent of The Globe’s workforce. The hope is to offset revenue losses as part of the company’s three-year cost reduction plan.

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Brave Browser Is Testing Micropayments to Compensate Publishers

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Brave Software, the makers of the Brave ad-blocking browser, are testing a micropayment system designed to compensate publishers for revenue lost from blocked ads. The idea is to let readers choose which publishers they want to support with Bitcoins through Brave Payments. How does it work? Will publishers be able to recover enough revenue for this to be a viable solution to ad blocking?

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This Week’s Subscription Headlines: Sales, Survival and Streaming

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In this week’s subscription news headlines, we’ve got sales, survival and streaming TV. Find out why NAA is changing its name, how to avoid common SaaS pitfalls and the future of magazine newsstand sales. We’ve got those headlines and more featuring Apple, Foxtel and Pandora.

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Subscription Based Cheddar TV Raises $10 Million in Funding

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Just five months in, former Buzzfeed president Jon Steinberg’s latest brainchild – Cheddar TV – has secured $10 million in its second round of funding. This latest round of funding will help the company expand its programming, which is streamed live using Facebook Live. The subscription-based Cheddar, a Bloomberg-Meets-Entertainment Tonight style news channel, targets millennials. What’s next for Cheddar?

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Logitech Launches Premium Video Subscription for Circle Video Camera

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Last week Logitech launched a premium subscription for its Circle security video camera. With the premium plan, subscribers get up to 31 days of free, secure cloud storage of video footage and custom day briefs versus the most recent 24-hours of storage that comes with the camera. A free 31-day trial comes with each new camera. Subscriptions are available for $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year…

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New App Store Review Guidelines Impact Auto-Renewable Subscriptions

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Last week Apple updated its App Store review guidelines to address subscriptions, SiriKit and iMessage apps. Developers who want to take advantage of the expanded categories for subscriptions need to take note of the guidelines for auto-renewable subscriptions. This includes specific guidelines laid out by Apple as well as its best practices which include the duration of the free trial periods and the change in rate structure. We’ve covered it all.

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CBS All Access Offers Ad-Free Version and Other Perks to Subscription

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Now that it has a strong foothold in the over-the-top (OTT) TV marketplace, CBS is shaking things up a bit at CBS All Access. It is offering an ad-free version of CBS All Access for $9.95. This will omit most TV commercials from on-demand viewing for subscribers, but they’ll still have to watch ads during live broadcasts. CBS is also launching ‘Big Brother: Over the Top,’ only on CBS All Access and making the OTT service available via Xbox One.

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